The Revival of Western Political Culture Theory and its Causes Analysis

In the western countries, there was already someone who had tried to explain political phenomena through the analysis of cultural factors, but the special political culture study slowly rise in political circles until after the Second World War, the theory of political culture in the West has experienced the new establishment and flourishing period of the beginning of 50 to 70s, after the recession in the beginning of 70 to 80s, it came to revive since the mid of 80s and realized further prosperity in 90s. In this paper, the author introduces the revival of the political culture theory, discusses the reasons of the revival, and summarizes the trend on the theory of political culture after the revival.